26 Top fiction books like Hearts of Fire by Ellen Brazer

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Hearts of Fire

By: Ellen Brazer

4.37

Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition

Shadowing the lives of two families, Hearts of Fire begins with the Milch twins. Raised in Berlin, …

If you liked the fiction plot in Hearts of Fire by Ellen Brazer , here is a list of 26 books like this:

1. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jamie Ford

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history - the internment of Am… read more

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2. Hum If You Don’t Know the Words

By: Bianca Marais

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apart… read more

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3. The First Ladies

By: Marie Benedict

4.04

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights a… read more

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4. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

By: Noa Tishby

4.34

Format: None pages, Audiobook

AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more

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"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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5. The Matzah Ball

By: Jean Meltzer

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Oy! to the worldRachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: she loves… read more

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6. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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7. French Braid

By: Anne Tyler

3.64

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey dee… read more

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8. The Nature of Fragile Things

By: Susan Meissner

4.26

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring… read more

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"It is the nature of the earth to shift. It is the nature of fragile things to break. It is the nature of fire to burn."

-Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

"I don't think love is something you can start and stop by choosing. Our hearts tell us who we will love, and not the other way."

-Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

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9. The Boy with the Star Tattoo

By: Talia Carner

4.15

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage… read more

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10. Don’t Forget to Write

By: Sara Goodman Confino

4.50

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and … read more

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11. The World Played Chess

By: Robert Dugoni

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer mone… read more

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12. Code Name Sapphire

By: Pam Jenoff

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of b… read more

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13. The Matchmaker's Gift

By: Lynda Cohen Loigman

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, c… read more

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"A drop of love sometimes brings an ocean of tears."

-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift

"If you can’t decide what you want to fight for, love is as good a cause as any."

-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift

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14. The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23)

By: Daniel Silva

4.38

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thi… read more

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15. Looking for Jane

By: Heather Marshall

4.36

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A debut about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, an… read more

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16. The Postmistress of Paris

By: Meg Waite Clayton

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Now an International bestseller, New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, Good Morning America B… read more

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"No one suspects American women of anything but needlepoint. Men so seldom imagine us capable of the things we're capable of."

-Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris

"Even in the darkest times at Camp des Milles, the men kept making art and music, literature, theatre. It was how they stayed alive. How they helped the world right itself."

-Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris

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17. The Thread Collectors

By: Shaunna J. Edwards

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroid… read more

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"As everyone around her knew, there were so many ways to not be free."

-Shaunna J. Edwards, The Thread Collectors

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18. Sparring Partners (Jake Brigance, #4)

By: John Grisham

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller.… read more

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19. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

By: Lara Love Hardin

4.46

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more

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20. Trial

By: Richard North Patterson

4.43

Format: 597 pages, Kindle Edition

Trial confirms Richard North Patterson’s place as “our most important author of popular fiction.”In… read more

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21. The German Wife

By: Kelly Rimmer

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Warsaw Orphan  returns with a gripping novel inspir… read more

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22. The Only Woman in the Room

By: Marie Benedict

3.86

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

She was beautiful. She was a genius. Could the world handle both? A novel about Hedy Lamarr. Hed… read more

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23. Honor

By: Thrity Umrigar

4.36

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two coup… read more

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"It was as if a gust of wind had blown open a window in my heart and a sweet bird had flown in and made a nest."

-Thrity Umrigar, Honor

"Because a woman can live in one of two houses--fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time."

-Thrity Umrigar, Honor

"Because a woman can live in one of two houses--- fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time."

-Thrity Umrigar, Honor

"When Radha and I were children, we used to play a game. She would ask, “What is the true color of the world, Didi?"

-Thrity Umrigar, Honor

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24. The Paris Library

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, thi… read more

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"No man ever steps in the same river twice."

-Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

"Life’s a brawl. You must fight for what you want."

-Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

"Libraries are lungs, [...] books the fresh air breathed in to keep the heart beating, to keep the brain imagining, to keep hope alive."

-Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

"The Library is my haven. I can always find a corner of the stacks to call my own, to read and dream. I want to make sure everyone has that chance, most especially the people who feel different and ne…"

-Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

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25. The Violin Conspiracy

By: Brendan Slocumb

4.12

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A mystery about a Black classical musician whose family heirloom violin is stolen on the eve of the… read more

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"He would tell you that music is truly a universal language, and that we the listeners will always impose our own fears and biases, our own hopes and hungers on whatever we hear. He would tell you tha…"

-Brendan Slocumb, The Violin Conspiracy

"Bring it. Just fucking bring it. Stand tall, Grandma Nora had told him: he would stand tall, with the spotlights shining on his face, and his music would pour into all their ears, and they would unde…"

-Brendan Slocumb, The Violin Conspiracy

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26. Flowers of Darkness

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

3.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of Sarah's Key comes Tatiana de Rosnay's Flowers of Dar… read more

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27. An Affair of Spies

By: Ronald H. Balson

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award--A spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany … read more

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28. The Takeaway Men

By: Meryl Ain

3.83

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski a… read more

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29. The Golden Age (Lion’s Den #3)

By: Eoin Dempsey

4.45

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Berlin, 1935. Two years have passed since Hitler swept to power and the Golden Age the Nazis pro… read more

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30. A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24)

By: Daniel Silva

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve… Acclaimed #1 Ne… read more

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31. Hearts of Fire

By: Ellen Brazer

4.37

Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition

Shadowing the lives of two families, Hearts of Fire begins with the Milch twins. Raised in Berlin, … read more

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21 best-selling fiction books like The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Kristin Harmel

4.25

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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